Alice Walker Quotes

I think Americans generally are not used to working very hard, in terms of working for the collective. I think in our country we have taken individualism to its farthest reaches, possibly.

Alice Walker

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 9, 1944

Topics

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When you think about it, if the fittest always won, all forests should be completely homogeneous. One species should supplant all others as the most superior competitor. But it doesn't happen that way. Nor does it happen that way in the marketplace.

Joel A. Barker

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To be a comedian, you have to have some darkness behind it. I certainly draw on my past, and it helps.

Matthew Perry

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I outline and outline and outline, and then I'm very specific about the stuff I write. That's my process.

Jeff Nichols

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I have tried to treat people on the other side civilly and look for common ground.

Amy Klobuchar

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Hypocrisy needs to be called out in American politics, and the absurd has reached the point where it is just insufferable.

Ana Navarro

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Obama is a statist. He's an authoritarian. He doesn't want to govern; he wants to rule.

Rush Limbaugh

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We could only solve our problems by cooperating with other countries. It would have been paradoxical not to cooperate. And therefore we needed to put an end to the Iron Curtain, to change the nature of international relations, to rid them of ideological confrontation, and particularly to end the arms race.

Mikhail Gorbachev

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A lot of my comedy is to do with being angry, then finding a way to channel that.

Julia Davis

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The challenges are different to different kinds of magazines. News magazines, magazines that have high frequency and news, are going to be challenged, heavily challenged, not just by the Internet but by the whole 24-hour news cycle which has just been getting enhanced.

Jann Wenner

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Call it loyalty, call it what you want, but I suppose I've got people up here who I'm really tight with, we've made a lot of great bonds over the last few years and I've got people in my corner I can trust.

Jonathan Brown

LoyaltyGreatTrustPeopleYouWant

When something special happens in wrestling, it's that much more special to me and for me to go, 'That was awesome,' because I'm as bitter as there is, so if you can get me to go, 'Woah, that was cool,' a couple of times, it's a special show.

Dolph Ziggler

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My biggest vice is playing solitaire on my iPad. It's bad. I mean, it's ridiculous.

Diane von Furstenberg

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